Chun Ly

Fair point as I understand that there's a burden with maintaining a helpdesk. My thoughts are: 1. Folks who read the README.md are typically developers or new developers. The ability...

@hamogu: I'm definitely glad that you shared your opinions. This was merely a suggestion.

I understand that slack wasn't meant to be for Q&As. My original motivation was about it connecting new contributors to the dev team. Perhaps that's done naturally without bringing slack...

I'll wait until the discourse is available and it's properly organized to `astropy` needs. If there's a desire to have custom badge pointing to specific discussions for each repo, I...

I recently contacted the maintainer (@MSusik) about this. He mentioned that he would revisit the code some time in the near future to determine issues, etc.

It may be better to use the DataCite metadata as that would provide support for other data repositories (e.g. Figshare). But regarding journal article DOIs, this should be possible using...